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Third factors in language design: the view from heritage languages
The workshop Third Factors in Language Design: the view from Heritage Languages will be held in Paris (Inalco) on June 6 2025. It is organized within the IRN project “Heritage Languages in Europe” (CNRS & University of Paris 8)
Invited speakers: Roberta D’Alessandro & Sivia Terenghi (University of Utrecht)
Organizers: Elena Soare (Univ. Paris 8 & CNRS), Alexandru Mardale (Inalco & CNRS) and Larisa Avram (Univ. Bucharest)
Program
9:30-9 :45 Welcome and opening
9:45-10 :20 Talk 1 Zetao Xu, Victor Yunan Pan – Interaction of UG and 3F principles in resumptive pronouns: evidence from heritage Chinese in the Netherlands and France
10 :20-10:55 Talk 2 Laura D’Aurizio, Susann Fischer, Natascha Müller – Third-factor principles in multilingual acquisition: the role of inflection for ‘residual’ subject omissions in French multilingual children
10:55-11:55 Invited speakers D’Alessandro & Terenghi TBA
11:55-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-14:35 Talk 3 Pîrvulescu, Mardale & Soare Mapping complexity and third factors in the nominal domain: the view from Heritage Romanian
14:35-15:10 Talk 4 (zoom) Madhusmitha Venkatesan, Pritha Chandra – Third Factor Principles-Motivated Syntactic Doubling: Evidence from Heritage Tamil
15:20-15:55 Talk 5 (zoom) Andrea Calpe Alvarez, Giuseppe Dario Benigno, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Marta Rivera zurita – Individual Differences in Structural Priming across a continuum of bilingualism
15:55-16:25 Coffee break
16:25-16:50 Talk 6 (zoom) Daniela Nunes de Alvarez Stransky – Input-based experience and abrupt input change: the case of Mexican Returnee Heritage Speakers
16:50-17:25 Talk 7 (zoom) Stéphanie Papin – Linguistic Resilience in CODAs: Heritage Sign Language Acquisition and the Third Factor in Bimodal Bilingualism
17:25-18:00 Talk 8 Silvina Montrul, Aylin Coskun Kunduz – Complex syntax in Turkish-American returnees and L2 learners of Turkish residing in Turkey
Registration is free. Just send an email to Elena Soare by May 31st to participate in person or to get the Zoom link.